Said Mike Tyson, quoted in "Mike Tyson ‘died’ while tripping on psychedelic toad venom" (NY Post).
November 16, 2021
"I 'died' during my first trip.... In my trips I’ve seen that death is beautiful. Life and death both have to be beautiful, but death has a bad rep."
"The toad has taught me that I’m not going to be here forever. There’s an expiration date.... Before I did the toad, I was a wreck. The toughest opponent I ever faced was myself. I had low self-esteem. People with big egos often have low self-esteem. We use our ego to subsidize that. The toad strips the ego.... It has made me more creative and helps me focus.... I’m more present as a businessman and entrepreneur.... If you knew me in 1989 you knew a different person. My mind isn’t sophisticated enough to fathom what happened, but life has improved. The toad’s whole purpose is to reach your highest potential. I look at the world differently. We’re all the same. Everything is love.... I’m fighting for psychedelics to become medicine you can buy over the counter...."
Said Mike Tyson, quoted in "Mike Tyson ‘died’ while tripping on psychedelic toad venom" (NY Post).
Said Mike Tyson, quoted in "Mike Tyson ‘died’ while tripping on psychedelic toad venom" (NY Post).
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Good for Mike Tyson. I’m curious to try the toad venom myself, but not likely until the buzz surrounding it dies down. If possible, I’d do the synthetic version. I’d also do it more for fun than enlightenment, but should enlightenment come, that’s ok.
Mike Tyson, God bless him, is an idiot. Why would anyone want to know his opinion on anything except to update their catalog of what idiots think?
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride?
Sitting around the fire, just after dawn, everyone wearing animal skin garments,
"Hey, what do you guys think we should do today?"
"I know. Lets lick some frogs and toads."
"Alright!!!"
https://media.distractify.com/brand-img/4ssYqjdeI/0x0/what-happens-if-you-lick-a-frog-1592843320719.jpg
If only Cus D'Amato had lived longer.
"His brain is squirming like a toad."
"The toad has taught me that I’m not going to be here forever. There’s an expiration date.... Before I did the toad, I was a wreck."
Mike, just a suggestion, but ya might wanna give your self-assessed "wreck status" another look-over.
Mike musta been really focused on finding fast-food joints, never noticing all those funeral homes and cemeteries as he drove down streets anywhere in the world.
Paging Hypnotoad! We need Hypnotoad, stat!
I'm not buying the whole fairy tale Mike Tyson seems to be selling, but the toad is different from anything else I have ever encountered. REALLY different. I've only done it a few times (it's quite a bit of work finding, catching, and "milking" the damn toads...), but it is like no other experience I have ever had. Very short lived effect and utterly incapacitating while it lasts, but it leaves you calmed and not stupefied. Also with entirely good feelings about what you have just done, but no pressing interest in doing it again. Like I said, it is very different from anything else I have ever experienced. It is quite impossible to describe adequately. I was reluctant to try the toad, but extremely happy that I did. I can't say if the two are connected, but shortly after I tried the toad I quit a decade long methamphetamine addiction. Oh, and a bottle a day whiskey habit and cigarettes too. I prefer to think that I just got a clue, but some might credit the toad. This was all about 6 years ago, and I've dome no drugs (or toad) since, so not just a short term thing.
“If you knew me in 1989 you knew a different person.”
Still eight years to go before he sampled some of Holyfield’s ear.
Tyson the philosopher. Sure, okay.
My favorite headline of 2021 was “Spanish Porn Star Detained by Authorities in Death of Fashion Photographer at Toad Venom Ritual.” Everybody covering the story used the phrase “toad venom ritual.” Well, how could you not? The story was always accompanied by ads for “Spandex Goat Tubes” (‘Available in a Variety of Colors; Perfect for Your Show Goat’), although that was probably the result of my making some kind of horrible mistake while Googling.
Could you image being in the same room as Mike Tyson while he is tripping?
Poor toad is going to wind up on the endangered species list what with all of this publicity.
And soon Gwyneth will be selling 100% free-range, organic toad milk on Goop to thousands of lonely, white, progressive, suburban Moms who want to be like Mike (no, not that Mike).
As the Joker says, “That which does not kill me only serves to make me stranger.”
Wait, so did Tyson really use finger-quotes around 'died', or is that the editor's attempt to smooth out the reader's experience a bit?
Making synthetic toad venom would be simple.
Drop your load on the giant toad,
Seems highly appropriate…
https://youtu.be/5RVdVq6_nOw
Mike Tyson has been pretty positive and profound for a while now. It's a surprise, I know. But listen to him on Joe Rogan's podcast.
From Owsley?
It sounds like Tyson is hanging with current day Don Juan Matus.
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Poor toad is going to wind up on the endangered species list what with all of this publicity.
Quite the opposite actually. Are cows extinct because people love a steak? The people I know who wrangle toads do not hurt them. In fact, they are actively introducing the toads to new areas when they release them. Whether or not this is wise is another question entirely, but endangered they will not be.
Tyson's comments appear literate and insightful. These are words not ordinarily associated with Mike Tyson, so maybe he has indeed changed. Who knew? The secret to success and happiness and finding your balance on this unstable platform is licking toads.... Is it just any toad or is it a specific species of toad? I wouldn't want to lick the wrong toad. Do frogs work? How about the Komodo Dragon? I don't suppose anyone has ever licked a Komodo Dragon, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they packed a powerful psychedelic punch. I wish someone would lick a Komodo Dragon and get back to us. The hero's journey.
People with big egos actually don't have low self-esteem. That is a 1990s myth. What they have is an outsized opinion of themselves that reality does not substantiate, creating fury. School bullies overestimate their class rank, how popular they are, and how many minutes they deserve playing on sports teams. Then everyone inexplicably cheats them and punishes them.
For a boxer or other profession where a chip on your shoulder is an advantage, that's great. For the rest of us, it's a liability, because people rapidly get sick of your shit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3yV0b-NhKTY&t=1090s
I listen to podcasts when I travel to my chiropractor- an hour one way- and this is on our mortality. I listened today, but I’ll listen again. There’s a country song everybody wants to go to Heaven but no one wants to die. I amended it- everyone wants to go to Heaven but we don’t want to go today!
Did I mention it’s a Peterson podcast w/a guest;0)
There is an up and coming thing called micro dosing- I know nothing about…
Drugs scare the crap out of me- but they also say ecstasy can help w/PTSD, so when done in a controlled environment w/an accurate and untainted drug- it’s a good thing. I think.
I admit it, psychedelics freak me out.
Poor toad is going to wind up on the endangered species list what with all of this publicity.
Quite the opposite actually. Are cows extinct because people love a steak?
I have been telling my students for nearly thirty years that if they really want to save the panda, they need to come up with a couple of really tasty dishes using panda meat. When they get outraged I ask them if they think cows will ever become endangered.
This is heaven right here right now. You just have to see it. Death heaven is a scam to keep you controlled in a living hell.
We’re all the same. Everything is love.... I’m fighting for psychedelics to become medicine you can buy over the counter...
Mike Tyson has never been known for the incisiveness of his thought for a sound reason.
Could you image being in the same room as Mike Tyson while he is tripping?
How could you tell?
The toughest opponent I ever faced was myself. I had low self-esteem. People with big egos often have low self-esteem. We use our ego to subsidize that. The toad strips the ego.... It has made me more creative and helps me focus.... I’m more present as a businessman and entrepreneur.... If you knew me in 1989 you knew a different person. My mind isn’t sophisticated enough to fathom what happened, but life has improved. The toad’s whole purpose is to reach your highest potential. I look at the world differently. We’re all the same. Everything is love.... I’m fighting for psychedelics to become medicine you can buy over the counter...."
"we use our ego to subsidize our addiction... God strips out the ego... God keeps me in today...Life has improved...my Gods whole purpose is to reach my highest potential..
We are all children of God, all the same, everything is love
I'm spreading the WORD, God is available over the counter.
Go to any AA open meeting and you will most likely hear the same as Mikes revelation.
"Mike Tyson has never been known for the incisiveness of his thought for a sound reason."
I disagree. He is credited with a very insightful thought: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." It's actually quite profound.
Toad, Toad, Toad
Toad, Toad, Toad
Toad, Toad, Toad
There's nothing you can do that can't be done
A bell you can ring that can't be rung
Nothing you can bite, but you can learn how to throw a fight
It's sleazy
No where you can drive without a road
You drivin’ a Kia, then you’ll be towed
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to lick the Toad
You’re queasy?
All you need is Toad
All you need is Toad
All you need is Toad, Toad
Toad is all you need
I listened to that Joe Rogan podcast with Mike Tyson, and he sounded so insane that it appeared to be making the other people in the room nervous. Mostly he’s about marketing his brand of marijuana. This psychedelic stuff has been bullshit and CIA capers since the fifties. First it was going to kill off God. Then the Pentagon was interested in using it for various wartime pursuits, none pleasant. Then MAPS took a page from the pot people and started marketing it as a medicine. I went to college with these people, and Leary was there too, and Al Haig was on the board. Their “research” consisted of handing out free ecstasy and leaving a pile of dumb surveys by the kegs. It’s a money racket, through and through. There is no real science behind it. You just can’t double blind test these extremely mind-altering drugs. If you want to get high, have at. Don’t drive. And don’t make me pay for your buzz with my taxes, which is what is currently happening and will happen more when it is approved as medicine and therapy.
Where do you go when you're toad away?
Back in college, I was the nonparticipating guy who brought helium to the LSD party, for my own amusement. Apparently, being high on acid isn't that much fun after hearing a friend talk in high-pitched squeaky voices. That was the night I learned that smoking hash was considered a good way to come down from an acid trip. College reallly is all about learning through experience, I guess, but just what that experience is, and what the lesson turns out to be, differs from person to person.
By the way, there are only four conditions proven where pot or its non-intoxicating derivatives are, through real testing, found to be — sometimes — better than legal drug alternatives: Crohns, Myasthenia Gravas, some seizure diseases, and MS. They found better treatments for both nausea and glaucoma a long time ago. And many of these patients far prefer the non-pot choices. But if you’re very sick, and you’d like to get high, have at. What’s irksome is the dishonesty of the activists, getting kids hooked on pot while their brains are developing with their fake medical clinic crap.
The people profiting from this are state legislators and ex-legislators, Dem and GOP, who seem to hold the licensing for an unusual number of these “clinics.” Oh, and the cartels, who are not only still operating outside the law but have expanded in every state with legalization. Bigger client base who get tired of paying the taxes and higher prices for the “doctor evaluation” and in the legal shops, plus no law enforcement. George Shultz was deeply involved in these schemes.
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